When I heard my best friend tell his grandmother that he couldn’t spare her ten dollars, I was shocked.
He can spend freely in siam dius, but won’t even spare $10 on his ah ma
Here was a man who would spend hundreds of dollars at the siam dius on many different siam bu, but wouldn’t give his own grandmother a measly ten dollars when she asked for some money.
It was so unfilial of him, and it made me angry.
My friend had always been the life of the party, never hesitating to throw money around. He would buy rounds of drinks for everyone, and was always generous when it came to tipping the siam bu at the siam dius.
It wasn’t uncommon to see him spending hundreds to even thousands of dollars in a single night, just to make sure everyone had a good time and had a girl with them to entertain them.
But when it came to his own grandmother, he was strangely stingy and really just sibei ‘niao’. He would always tell her that he was too busy to visit, or that he didn’t have the money to spare.
I had seen him spend more money on a single night at the pub than he had given his grandmother in the past year.
It made me angry to see him act this way. Here was a man who went out of his way to make sure everyone else was taken care of, but refused to help his own grandmother.
I spoke to him about it before and he just brushed it off as he was not very close with his grandmother and there are people taking care of her.
It was so unfilial, and it made me sad to see.